Education Research

MITEI is a global leader in advancing the ways that we teach and learn about energy.

NSF EMBeRs Grant

In collaboration with the University of Texas at El Paso, MITEI Director of Education Antje Danielson has been working has been working to understand and enhance the ways in which graduate student teams approach interdisciplinary environmental science problems. Funded by a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant in the Innovations in Graduate Education track, the research team developed model-based reasoning techniques to test new methods of training graduate student teams in environmental sciences, helping to overcome knowledge integration and synthesis challenges.

The project, titled Employing Model-Based Reasoning in Environmental Sciences (EMBeRS), has led to numerous research publications, including:

Fair, J. M., and Stokes, M. M. and Pennington, D. and Mendenhall, I. H. (2016). Scientific collaborations: how do we measure the return on relationships. Frontiers in Public Health, 4, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00009

Thompson, K., Gouvea, J., Habron, G (2016). A design approach to understanding the activity of learners undertaking a model based reasoning course: environment and diversity. Proceedings from The International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Singapore, 2. https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/331